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I am an artist and a political being as well.

Robin Morgan

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Robin Morgan
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 29
Activist
Actor
Editor
Feminist
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Political Scientist
Writer
Lake Worth Beach
Florida
Robin Evonne Morgan
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Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.
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We are the women men warned us about.
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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.
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I do believe deeply that all human beings, male and female, are sexual beings, most likely bisexual beings channeled this way and that by cultures terrified of boundary crossings without passports stamped gay or straight.
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The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion
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Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.
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guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.
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Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.
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White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.
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raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?
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... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.
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Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
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In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.
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An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began.
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For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.
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Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.
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Carry yourself as one who will change the world, because you will.
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people are capable of profound metamorphosis, though unfortunately they rarely avail themselves of this genius, force of habit being an even greater enemy of change than cowardice.
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Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.
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If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.
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